India's baby boomers: In driving need for dental care

The present paper aims to review the literature on increasing health care challenges and needs of a growing Indian geriatric population. It also focuses on the need to overcome the shortfalls in its current oral health status in elderly. This review is based on a PubMed database search engine publis...

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Autores principales: Dandakeri, Savita, Dandekeri, Shilpa, Rai, B. Gunachandra, Suvarna, Nitin, Ragher, Mallikarjuna, Prabhu, Rachana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Dental Science - Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4606636/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26538894
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.163493
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author Dandakeri, Savita
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description The present paper aims to review the literature on increasing health care challenges and needs of a growing Indian geriatric population. It also focuses on the need to overcome the shortfalls in its current oral health status in elderly. This review is based on a PubMed database search engine published in the period from 1990 to 2010 in various dental journals. Different strategies are designed to provide better facilities and easy access of these facilities not only to elderly living in the city but to the one's in rural areas. It is emphasized that geriatric dentistry should be included in the educational systems to help resolve problems of oral health care for the elderly in India.
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spelling pubmed-46066362015-11-04 India's baby boomers: In driving need for dental care Dandakeri, Savita Dandekeri, Shilpa Rai, B. Gunachandra Suvarna, Nitin Ragher, Mallikarjuna Prabhu, Rachana J Pharm Bioallied Sci Dental Science - Review Article The present paper aims to review the literature on increasing health care challenges and needs of a growing Indian geriatric population. It also focuses on the need to overcome the shortfalls in its current oral health status in elderly. This review is based on a PubMed database search engine published in the period from 1990 to 2010 in various dental journals. Different strategies are designed to provide better facilities and easy access of these facilities not only to elderly living in the city but to the one's in rural areas. It is emphasized that geriatric dentistry should be included in the educational systems to help resolve problems of oral health care for the elderly in India. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4606636/ /pubmed/26538894 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.163493 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4606636/
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